Republican Civil War intensifies: Senator Rick Scott moves away from Mitch McConnell before his speech criticizing his Republican “agenda” that would “raise taxes for half the American people.”

• Republican Rising Civil War Plays at Tuesday’s Party Press Conference
• Mitch McConnell refutes Rick Scott’s 11-point interim mandate
• He said he would raise taxes “taxes on half the American people”
• But the party’s Senate campaign chairman was not there to hear it
• Scott finished his own remarks and then left before McConnell criticized him
• The debate is whether the party should make its own proposals before the autumn
• McConnell wants the by-elections to be a referendum for President Biden

from Rob Wings, senior US political reporter for Dailymail.Com

Posted: 22:07 GMT, March 1, 2022 | Updated: 23:43 GMT, March 1, 2022

The growing republican civil war took place in the public spotlight at a party press conference on Tuesday, as GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell has accused Sen. Rick Scott of proposing a political plan that he says will increase the taxes of millions of Americans.

But Scott doesn’t bother to hear McConnell’s criticism.

After he finished his speech for the president Joe BidenIn a State of the Union address, he stepped away from the rostrum and simply kept walking instead of listening to his leader ask questions.

He may have known that the first would be on the political agenda he has been pushing for in recent days.

McConnell, ignoring the departure, said Scott was behind him and was welcome to answer a question.

“If we are lucky enough to have a majority next year, I will be the leader of the majority,” he continued.

I will decide after consultation with my members what to put on the floor.

“And let me tell you what would not be part of our agenda. We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises the taxes of half the American people and closes Social Security and Medicare within five years – this will not be part of the agenda of the Republican majority in the Senate.

“Instead, we will focus on what the American people care about: inflation, energy, defense, the border, and crime.”

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has accused Sen. Rick Scott of proposing a political plan that he says will raise taxes for millions of Americans during a party press conference.

Scott spoke at a press conference this week about Republican politics on Wednesday

But Scott did not hear the criticism. After uttering his own remarks, he turned, left the rostrum, and kept walking … leaving the press conference before it was over.

The theater is currently showing a division in the party between those who want to campaign on a positive agenda and those who believe that the position of Republicans in opposition means that their job is to oppose the Democrats.

The display of the manifesto now simply provides targets for advertising for the attack, according to McConnell and his allies.

But Scott, who is leading the Republican campaign in the Senate, sees his 11-point plan as a conservative plan of action if Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate again.

It includes a declaration that there are two sexes, a shrinking government and a restriction on most federal government employees – including members of Congress – to 12 years of service.

His plan will also repeal all federal laws in five years, and says all Americans must pay income tax “to have the skin in the game.”

But that caused a rift between two of the most important figures in the Senate Republican campaign.

McConnell sees things differently and, judging by his public comments, wants to turn the midterm elections into a referendum on Biden, not on Republican policy plans.

Scott’s 11-point plan includes plans to downsize the government, repeal all federal laws after five years, and limit most federal workers – including members of Congress – to 12 years in office.

The same poll, published Sunday by the ABC News / Washington Post, shows that 50% of all adults polled want Republicans to control Congress after the 2022 interim terms, and 40% want Democrats to control Capitol Hill.

Scott received the announcement during a meeting of the Republican leadership on Monday, according to Politicowhen he was told that his plans could expose the party to unnecessary attacks in the autumn.

McConnell reportedly told the Florida senator that his proposal would give Democrats millions of dollars in munitions in attack advertisements.

In January, the GOP Senate leader was asked what he planned to do if Republicans returned to both houses in November.

“This is a very good question,” he told reporters. “And I’ll let you know when we get it back.”

Republicans are confident they will succeed in November.

On Sunday, Biden’s approval rating reached a new low of 37 percent in a poll that also showed that 10 percent more older Americans would prefer Republicans to control Congress than Democrats.

More than half – 55 percent – of adults disapprove of Biden’s work just before the president made his first address on the state of the Union, according to a poll by ABC News / Washington Post.

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A Ukrainian police officer lost his entire family, including his six-year-old daughter and six-week-old son, after they were shot dead along with their mother and grandparents on the day of the Russian invasion, it became clear today.

Oleg Fedko, 30, was on patrol when his relatives were killed when soldiers opened fire on two cars on their way near Nova Kakhovka in southern Ukraine.

Ukrainian media report that Russian soldiers shot the family in the bombed Ukrainian region of Kherson, north of Crimea.

Ukraine war: The latest

• Russia’s military tells Kyiv citizens it can “leave freely” as it hints at attacks on civilian areas
• Russian forces fire on Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, killing at least 11 civilians in residential areas
• Russian forces reach the southern city of Kherson near Moscow-controlled Crimea
• Kyiv says 352 civilians have been killed, including 14 children, since the invasion began last Thursday
• Nearly 520,000 people have fled Ukraine in the past five days, the UN refugee agency said.
• International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan says he is investigating the “situation in Ukraine”, saying there is a “reasonable basis” to believe that “war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed”
• Turkey blocks warships from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, restricting the movement of Russian and other naval assets by invoking a 1936 treaty.
• Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia conclude the first round of talks without a breakthrough. Both sides agree to hold second round “soon”
• In talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, Putin called for “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine
• The head of the UN nuclear service “is seriously concerned” that the invading Russian troops are operating near Zaporozhye, the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine
• Twitter and Facebook are taking steps to limit the online presence of Russian state-run news outlets
• Russia has been expelled from the 2022 World Cup, and its teams have been eliminated from all international football competitions “until further notice”.
• The International Olympic Committee has called on sports federations to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes
• The United States wants to expel 12 members of Russia’s UN mission from America because they are “intelligence operatives.”
• The United States and Canada have banned all transactions with Russia’s central bank as an unprecedented sanction. The EU is adding more of Putin’s allies to its blacklist of sanctions
• Putin has ordered extraordinary capital controls and forced exporters to buy rubles to keep their currency falling by a fifth, reaching record lows.
• Legislators in traditionally non-aligned Finland – which has a long border with Russia – will discuss NATO membership
• Disney and Sony Pictures have stopped releasing their films in Russian cinemas due to their invasion of Ukraine

Six-year-old Sofia Fedko and her brother Ivan, who was just six weeks old, died with the child’s mother, Irina, 27, and two grandparents, both 56, on the first day of the conflict last Thursday.

Oleg’s brother Denis Fedko said he was talking to his mother on the phone at the time. “I talked to my mother,” he said, adding: “I kept hearing my mother screaming that there were children [in the car] and” How can you [do this]? ”

Describing the beginning of the attack, he said: “I heard little Vanya [Ivan] crying loudly. He was only a month and a half old. And then I heard shots. Then there was silence and then shots again. There were two shots, each two to three shots long. I realized they were finishing them.

Reports say that Oleg Sr. forced him to take family members because his son was on duty.

On the same day, February 24, Russian troops entered the village of Veseloye, about 40 miles from the city of Kherson, and the family reportedly decided to flee the Russians again.

Local reports say that the first car managed to pass in front of Russian soldiers in the village of Veseloe. The second car didn’t have time.

The policeman “cannot remove the bodies of his relatives killed by Russian troops,” zaxid.net reported.

The tragedy is another example of how Putin’s war is being waged against all Ukrainians, including children.

The life of Polina’s brother and sister, the 10-year-old Ukrainian girl mad by Harry Potter who was shot dead by the Russians along with their parents, still hangs in the balance today like a little girl blown up by five others when a rocket struck is called a kindergarten.

Polina was among three members of the same family killed in her car by one of Putin’s sabotage and intelligence units operating in the capital on Saturday.

Anton Kudrin, his wife Svetlana Zapadinskaya and their middle daughter died in a hail of bullets, their eldest daughter Sofia and young son Semyon were injured and in critical condition in hospital, unaware that their family had been killed.

A touching photo of a relative with his head bowed as he shakes Semyon’s hand while lying on a fan, portrays Putin’s war on civilians and continues to have a terrible impact on Ukraine’s youngest and most vulnerable. Sixteen children have been killed and 45 injured since last Thursday, and the death toll is expected to rise later today.

The brutal treatment suffered by the Russians by the children of Ukraine horrified the world, as it was also revealed that a child with gunshot wounds died on the way to the hospital after his ambulance was fired upon by the invaders.

Yesterday’s photos, depicting the senseless death of the so-called girl in pink pajamas with a unicorn, shocked the world. Surrounded by doctors and nurses, the six-year-old lay fatally wounded in a wheelchair held by her blood-soaked father, one of the youngest victims of Putin’s murderous attack on her country.

Six-year-old Sofia Fedko was killed with her little brother when troops opened fire on the family car, killing her mother Irina. Sofia’s father Oleg (pictured with his wife) was working as a police officer when his family died

Oleg and Irena with their daughter when she turned two. The couple had just had their second child, a baby boy. who also died in the attack

Grandpa and grandfather Oleg Fedko, 56, and Anna Fedko, 56, also died, expelling the family from their southern city after the Russian invasion

A photo of the smiling pink-haired student Polina was shared yesterday by Vladimir Bondarenko, the deputy mayor of Kyiv. Mr Bondarenko said: “Her name was Polina. He studied in the 4th grade of the school in Kyiv. She and her parents were shot dead by the Russian DRG. ‘The 10-year-old loved the Harry Potter books and was in her final year of primary school when she was killed.

Seven-year-old Alice Hlans was one of six people killed in a blow to her kindergarten on Friday, the second day of the Russian invasion. Photos of the aftermath of the attack show bodies scattered around the entrance as staff tried to escape with the children.

At least one child hiding in the nursery was injured in the attack.

Chief Prosecutor Irina Venediktov said Alice, three months after her eighth birthday, died at a hospital Saturday after the attack in the small town of Okhtyrka, an hour’s drive from Ukraine’s northeastern border.

The Russian military has been accused of using cluster bombs in the attack, with a broken kindergarten showing traces of multiple bomb blasts. The Kremlin has denied the allegations.

An unnamed boy was killed on the second day of fighting in the small town of Chukhuev in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine after a shell hit apartments.

While a local doctor told Sky News that a ten-year-old boy died from gunshot wounds on the way to Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv on Friday night. Dr Andrei Vysotsky said the boy was “in the ambulance and the ambulance was also under fire”.

Unkilled or injured children are among more than 500,000 trying to flee Ukraine to the West – many forced to say goodbye to their fathers, who remain to fight.

Putin’s infamous war against the people of Ukraine was revealed in heartbreaking photos capturing the death of an innocent six-year-old child – named the girl in the pink pajamas with a unicorn – one of 16 children now killed in the conflict.

The disturbing photos outline the battle to save an unnamed little girl who was fatally wounded when the Russians shelled her apartment building in Mariupol on Sunday – and portrayed the horrific casualties the war inflicted on civilians, especially children.

During the rescue operation, a doctor in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into the girl, turned to the AP photographer and said: “Show this to Putin: the eyes of this child and the crying doctors.”

Polina’s younger brother Semyon Kudrin is supported by a loved one as he lies on a ventilator after being wounded by the Russians in an attack that claimed the lives of his sister and parents. His eldest sibling Sofia also hangs in the balance

Ten-year-old pink-haired Polina was shot and killed by Russians while in a car with her parents in Kyiv. The Harry Potter fan had to finish primary school this year

Seven-year-old Alice Hlans was one of six people killed in a blow to her kindergarten on Friday, the second day of the Russian invasion. Photos of the aftermath of the attack show bodies scattered around the entrance as staff tried to flee with the children to Okhtyrka in eastern Ukraine. The circles suggest multiple blows, probably from a cluster bomb

Father Anton Kudrin, and wife Svetlana Zapadynskaya and their middle daughter Polina died, their eldest daughter Sofia (at the back) and youngest son Semyon (right) were badly wounded

A woman, who could be the child’s mother, reacts as paramedics perform CPR on the girl who was fatally injured during shelling in Mariupol yesterday. She clutches her blood-soaked hand to her mouth while clutching the child’s belongings with the other including shoes and a scarf

The child is lying dead and only in the city hospital after the Russian attacks took her life in a photo that shocked the world. 16 children have died in Ukraine since Thursday, 45 have been injured

Squeezing her bloodied hand to her mouth and wearing the child’s slippers, pompom scarf and hat, a woman, who may be her mother, was photographed trying to resuscitate the six-year-old in the back of an ambulance after the artillery strike.

The next photo, too vivid to be published, shows the girl’s father holding the hand of his lifeless child while the paramedic resuscitates her small body. He sobs while covered in something that looks like her blood.

A team of doctors then gently transports the child, who is still wearing his red-paired unicorn pajamas, to a hospital in the coastal town. Her bed linen was then cut so that a team of seven doctors worked on her body, which was still caught by the praying father.

The latest image shows the child only in a wheelchair in an empty ward that has been declared dead in a war that claimed at least 210 civilian lives by Sunday, including more than a dozen children.

More than 500,000 refugees, mostly women and children, have fled Ukraine to the West, with some children separated or even orphaned since the invasion began. Queues of up to 25 miles are reported on the border with Poland and Romania.

It came when Mail readers donated an outstanding £ 268,000 on the first day of our appeal to Ukraine. The owner of the newspaper also promised 500,000 pounds – sending the monumental amount for the first day, which exceeded 750,000 pounds, to be given to renowned charities, which are already on site, distributing hot food, blankets and vital housing to affected families.

The shocking picture of the pale and lifeless body of a six-year-old child could become defining images of the conflict in the same way as a photo of three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi drowned on a Turkish beach in 2015 shocked the world and revealed the plight of refugees. fleeing the war-torn country.

Her death, like that of other children, reveals Putin’s dirty lie that he is not waging war against the Ukrainian people amid calls for him to be treated as a war criminal for his civilian bombings. Several nurseries and kindergartens were also damaged.

President Zelensky said in a televised address yesterday that 16 Ukrainian children had been killed and 45 wounded in the four days since the invasion began.

The little boy Mark Goncharuk was filmed running with others in a van to the Ukrainian border, fighting back tears as he recounted how his father stayed behind to help fight the Russians.

As tears streamed down his face, he said, “We left our father in Kyiv. He helps our heroes, our army and can even fight alone. The family was picked up by a Reuters team. Mark said, “We walked for three hours and planned to walk for three days. You saved us.

Putin has drastically escalated East-West tensions by ordering Russian nuclear forces to be on high alert on Sunday as Ukraine’s war-torn leader agrees to negotiate with Moscow as Putin’s forces penetrate deeper into the country.

Putin cited NATO’s “aggressive statements” in issuing a directive to increase his country’s nuclear weapons readiness, a move that has raised fears that Ukraine’s invasion could escalate into a nuclear war, whether intentional or by mistake.

The Russian leader “potentially includes forces that, if there is a mistake in the calculations, could make things much, much more dangerous,” said a senior US defense official, who wished to remain anonymous.

This is the kindergarten blown up by the Russians killing six in happier times before it was hit with a warhead

A Ukrainian father says a tearful goodbye to his son as he boards a train with his mother and sister as men stay behind in Kyiv and other cities to fight the Russians

Gravely ill children, including several diagnosed with cancer, are now receiving treatment on the basement floor of the shelter of Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital

A Ukrainian child sobs alone in a railways station as Europe faces a fresh refugee crisis as millions are potentially displaced by war

Children cling to the windows of coaches or cry as they are separated from families and taken away from the front line

A woman and a child wait for a call to cross the Polish passport control after arriving in a train from Kyiv at the Przemysl main train station

A member of the Slovak Armed Forces carries a child fleeing from Ukraine who arrived in Slovakia with her family, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine

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My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart is battling her expropriated husband’s allegations that she “illegally” withdrew $ 850,000 from their company’s account.

Haart, 50, filed for divorce last month, just hours after 63-year-old Silvio Scalia fired her as CEO, co-owner and chief creative officer of Elite World Group (EWG), a talent media agency. which he acquired in 2011.

In a new lawsuit received by DailyMail.com, Haart responded to her “wrongful” termination, claiming that Scalia called her “the best CEO they’ve had” several times, and she claims she never took salary from EWG.

She also claims in the documents that she continues to personally pay salaries to selected employees, as well as to department heads and other employees who leave or are fired.

A source told DailyMail.com that Haart’s main concern was that “the company she worked hard for would not be sold to pay Silvio’s debts.”

Julia Haart starred in the popular Netflix series, which focuses on her life in the fashion industry after leaving the strict orthodox Jewish religion in which she grew up

Haart was fired as CEO of Elite World Group last month, hours before filing for divorce from her estranged husband Silvio Scalia for nearly three years

Julia Haart’s full email to EWG staff

Dear all,

First of all, I would like to thank the many people in this email and throughout the company who have come forward with support and assistance over the last two weeks. Your loyalty, grace and dedication to our mission at EWG will be rewarded.

I would like to apologize that my personal circumstances and my divorce from Silvio have affected our business so much – obviously, the ill-considered decisions, false allegations and the consequences of the last two weeks have not been mine. Unfortunately, these tactics have undermined our business, challenged our trust and devalued the tremendous progress we have made. Although we have certainly lost ground in the many advances we have made together, I am confident that with time and dedication we can rise even stronger than before.

As you probably know, I intend to fight vigorously for my role in this organization and to remove these obviously false allegations, which were recklessly imposed in the press. Today, my team filed the following action in Delaware (link). Given the substantial evidence provided, we are confident of a speedy court decision. I look forward to leaving this issue behind and continuing to build for the future together. I look forward to seeing you soon.

At your disposal,

Julia

Haart starred in the popular Netflix series, which focuses on her life in the fashion industry after leaving the strict orthodox Jewish religion in which she grew up.

New court documents say Haart has turned the EWG for the better.

“As a result of Haart’s tenure as CEO of EWG, she transformed a business that had a significant downward trajectory of less than $ 90 million when Scaglia ran EWG into a business of well over $ 500 million.

Scalia admitted to investment bankers in mid-2021 and later when he tried to present to the public that “Haart is the CEO and a real force behind the success and status of EWG in the industry.”

“In 2022, Scalia has repeatedly stated that she is ‘afraid of Julia’ and ‘Julia is the best CEO she has ever had,’ the document said.

A source told DailyMail.com that Haart contacted the company’s staff by email to express her feelings for them and the business as a whole.

“I would like to extend my heartfelt apologies that my personal circumstances and Silvio’s divorce have affected our business so much – apparently hasty decisions, false allegations and the consequences of the last two weeks have not been mine,” Haart said in a statement. email to staff.

“Unfortunately, these tactics have undermined our business, challenged our confidence and reduced the tremendous progress we have made. “While we have certainly lost ground in the many advances we have made together, I am confident that with time and dedication we can rise even stronger than before,” she added.

The couple’s divorce was anything but friendly.

Last month, Haart filed a temporary restraining order against her husband, a technology entrepreneur she claims was involved in “harassing” her during their marriage.

“He has become increasingly fickle, abusive and unperturbed over the past few weeks,” she said in the restraining order documents.

In a new lawsuit received by DailyMail.com, Haart fought against her “wrongful” termination, claiming that Scalia called her “the best CEO they’ve ever had” several times in writing, and she claims she never did not receive a salary from the EWG

Scalia accused Haart of “illegally” withdrawing $ 850,000 from the company’s account, and she accused him of “withdrawing millions to invest in SHS Asset Management and finance its extravagant lifestyle.”

The Moscow-born New Yorker claims that the Swiss-born businessman, who grew up in Italy, was involved in “rude, harassment, unauthorized behavior” for “illegal termination”, blocking access to the EWG office, disrupting her corporate credit cards, stopping the telephone services in their marriage home and the termination of her assistants.

“We will not respond to the many lies and baseless personal slanders in Ms. Haart’s case in Delaware, except to trust the court to determine the facts and the law,” Silvio’s lawyers told People.

“We will note, however, that Ms. Haart does not seem to have taken the time to read the company’s management documents on who owns the shares that control the company.”

A source told DailyMail.cm that Haart’s main concern was that “the company she worked hard for would not be sold by paying off Silvio’s debts and financing his new company.”

Julia’s lawyer, Marty Singer, meanwhile, said the EWG’s valuation had more than quadrupled from $ 90 million to $ 500 million since she took over.

Haart first met Scaglia in 2016 while working as the creative director of the luxury lingerie line La Perla, which he acquired in 2013.

The founder of Fastweb has three adult children from his marriage to Monica Ashei, which ended in 2018.

Julia Haart, co-founder of + Body, has four children – Batsheva, 28, Miriam, 21, Shlomo, 26, and Aron, 15, from her 23-year marriage to Josef Handler, which ended in 2014.

On February 2, Julia announcements that filming has begun for the second season of her reality series on Netflix, which will no doubt describe the divorce in detail.

Haart, who left her ultra-Orthodox Haredin community in 2013, will release her 416-page memoir Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie on April 12.